The first requirement for the acquisition of power by the Positive Woman is to understand the differences between men and women. Your outlook on life, your faith, your behavior, your potential for fulfillment, all are determined by the parameters of your original premise. The Positive Woman starts with the assumption that the world is her oyster. She rejoices in the creative capability within her body and the power potential of her mind and spirit. She understand that men and women are different, and that those very differences provide the key to her success as a person and fulfillment as a women.

The womenıs liberationist, on the other hand, is imprisoned by her own negative view of herself and of her place in the world around her. This view of women was most succinctly expressed in an advertisement designed by the principal womenıs liberationist organization, the National Organization for Women (NOW), and run in many magazines and newspapers and as spot announcements on many television stations. The advertisement showed a darling curly headed girl with the caption: ³This healthy, normal baby has a handicap. She was born female.²

This is the self-articulated dog-in-the-manger, chip-on-the-shoulder, fundamental dogma of the womenıs liberation movement. Someone--it is not clear who, perhaps God, perhaps the ³Establishment,² perhaps a conspiracy of male chauvinist pigs--dealt women a foul blow by making them female. It becomes necessary, therefore, for women to agitate and demonstrate and hurl demands on society in order to wrest from an oppressive male-dominated social structure the status that has been wrongfully denied to women through the centuries.

By its very nature, therefore, the womenıs liberation movement precipitates a series of conflict situations--in the legislatures, in the courts, in the schools, in industry--with man targeted as the enemy. Confrontation replaces cooperation as the watchword of all relationships. Women and men become adversaries instead of partners.

The second dogma of the womenıs liberationists is that, of all the injustices perpetrated upon women through the centuries, the most oppressive is the cruel fact that women have babies and men do not. Within the confines of the womenıs liberationist ideology, therefore, the abolition of this overriding inequality of women becomes the primary goal. This goal must be achieved at any and all costs--to the women herself, to the baby, to the family, and to society. Women must be made equal to men in their ability not to become pregnant and not to be expected to care for babies they may bring into the world.

This is why womenıs liberationists are compulsively involved in the drive to make abortion and child-care centers for all women, regardless of religion or income, both socially acceptable and government-financed. Former Congresswoman Bella Abzug has defined the goal: ³to enforce the constitutional right of females to terminate pregnancies that they do not wish to continue.²
If man is targeted as the enemy, and the ultimate goal of womenıs liberation is independence from men and the avoidance of pregnancy and its consequences, then lesbianism is logically the highest form in the ritual of womenıs liberation. Many, such as Kate Millett, come to this conclusion, although many others do not.

The Positive Woman will never travel that dead-end road. It is self-evident to the Positive Woman that the female body with its baby-producing organs was not designed by a conspiracy of men but by the Divine Architect of the human race. Those who think it is unfair that women have babies, whereas men cannot, will have to take up their complaint with God because no other power is capable of changing that fundamental fact. On some college campuses, I have been assured that other methods of reproduction will be developed. But most of us must deal with the real world rather than with the imagination of dreamers.

Another feature of the womanıs natural role is the obvious fact that women can breast-feed babies and men cannot. This functional role was not imposed by conspiratorial males seeking to burden women with confining chores, but must be recognized as part of the plan of the Divine Architect for the survival of the human race through the centuries and in the countries that know no pasteurization of milk or sterilization of bottles.
The Positive Woman looks upon her femaleness and her fertility as part of her purpose, her potential, and her power. She rejoices that she has a capability for creativity that men can never have.

The third basic dogma of the womenıs liberation movement is that there is no difference between male and female except the sex organs, and that all those physical, cognitive, and emotional differences you think are there, are merely the result of centuries of restraints imposed by a male-dominated society and sex-stereotyped schooling. The role imposed on women is, by definition, inferior, according to the womenıs liberationists.

The Positive Woman knows that, while there are some physical competitions in which women are better (and can command more money) than men, including those that put a premium on grace and beauty, such as figure skating, the superior physical strength of males over females in competitions of strength, speed, and short-term endurance is beyond rational dispute.

The Positive Woman remembers the essential validity of the old prayer: ³Lord, give me the strength to change what I can change, the serenity to accept what I cannot change, and the wisdom to discern the difference.² The womenıs liberationists are expending their time and energies erecting a make-believe world in which they hypothesize that if schooling were gender-free, and if the same money were spend on male and female sports programs, and if women were permitted to compete on equal terms, then they would prove themselves to be physically equal. Meanwhile, the Positive Woman has put the ineradicable physical differences into her mental computer, programmed her plan of action, and is already on the way to personal achievement . . . .

The Positive Woman recognizes the fact that, when it comes to sex, women are simply not the equal of men. The sexual drive of men is much stronger than that of women. That is how the human race was designed in order that it might perpetuate itself. The other side of the coin is that it is easier for women to control their sexual appetites. A Positive Woman cannot defeat a man in a wrestling or boxing match, but she can motivate him, inspire him, encourage him, teach him, restrain him, reward him, and have power over him that he can never achieve over her with all his muscle. How or whether a Positive Woman uses her power is determined solely by the way she alone defines her goals and develops her skills.

The Differences between men and women are also emotional and psychological. Without womanıs innate maternal instinct, the human race would have died out centuries ago. There is nothing so helpless in all earthly life as the newborn infant. It will die within hours if not cared for. Even in the most primitive, uneducated societies, women have always cared for their newborn babies. They didnıt need any schooling to teach them how. They didnıt need any welfare workers to tell them it is their social obligation. Even in societies to whom such concepts as ³ought,² ³social responsibility,² and ³compassion for the helpless² were unknown, mothers cared for their new babies.

Why? Because caring for a baby serves the natural maternal need of a woman. Although not nearly so total as the babyıs need, the womanıs need is nonetheless real.

The overriding psychological need of a woman is to love something alive. A baby fulfills this need in the lives of most women. If a baby is not available to fill that need, women search for a baby-substitue. This is the reason why women have traditionally gone into teaching and nursing careers. They are doing what comes naturally to the female psyche. The school-child or the patient of any age provides an outlet for a woman to express her natural maternal need.

This maternal need in women is the reason why mothers whose children have grown up and flown from the next are sometimes cut loose from their psychological moorings. The maternal need in women can show itself in love for grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or even neighborsı children. the maternal need in some women has even manifested itself in an extraordinary affection lavished on a dog, a cat, or a parakeet.

This is not to say that every woman must have a baby in order to be fulfilled. But it is to say that fulfillment for most women involves expressing their natural maternal urge by loving and caring for someone.

The womenıs liberation movement complains that traditional stereotyped roles assume that women are ³passiveı and that men are ³aggressive.² The anomaly is that a womenıs most fundamental emotional need is not passive at all, but active. A woman naturally seeks to love affirmatively and to show that love in an active way by caring for the object of her affections.

The Positive Woman finds somebody on whom she can lavish her maternal love so that it doesnıt well up inside her and cause psychological frustrations. Surely no woman is so isolated by geography or insulated by spirit that she cannot find someone worthy of her maternal love. All persons, men and women, gain by sharing something of themselves with their fellow humans, but women profit most of all because it is part of their very nature . . . .

Here is a starting checklist of goals that can be restored to America if Positive Women will apply their dedicated efforts:

1. The right of a woman to be a full-time wife and mother and to have this right recognized by laws that obligate her husband to provide the primary financial support and a home for her and their children.

2. The responsibility of parents (not the government) for the care of preschool children.

3. The right of parents to insist that the schools:

a. permit voluntary prayer,
b. teach the ³fourth R,² right and wrong, according to the precepts of Holy Scriptures,
c. use textbooks that do not offend the religious and moral values of the parents,
d. use textbooks that honor the family, monogamous marriage, womanıs role as wife and mother, and manıs role as provider and protector,
e. teach such basic educational skills as reading and arithmetic before time and money are spent on frills,
f. permit children to attend school in their own neighborhood, and
g. separate the sexes for gym classes, athletic practice and competitor, and academic and vocational classes, if so
desired.

4. The right of employers to give job preference (where qualifications are equal) to a wage earner supporting dependents.
5. The right of a woman engaged in physical-labor employment to be protected by laws and regulations that respect the physical differences and different family obligations of men and women.
6. The right to equal opportunity in employment and education for all persons regardless of race, creed, sex, or national origin.
7. The right to have local governments prevent the display of printed or pictorial materials that degrade women in a pornographic, perverted, or sadistic manner.
8. The right to defend the institution of the family by according certain rights to husbands and wives that are not given to those choosing immoral lifestyles.
9. The right to life of all innocent persons from conception to natural death.
10. The right of citizens to live in a community where state and local government and judges maintain law and order by a system of justice under due process and punishment that is swift and certain.
11. the right of society to protect itself by designating different roles for men and women in the armed forces and police and fire departments, where necessary.

12. The right of citizens to have the federal government adequately provide for the common defense against aggression by any other nation.